San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-11-28
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Terrapins are tattened on oyster juice
and oatmeal water.
A Lynchburg, Va, teacher advertiscs
Construction In photography, or the
science OF proper pronunciation"
The shipments OF California fruits TO
the east by rail In October, were over
24.0O0,0 600 pOunds-twiCe as much as In
October, 1856.
A cOlored woman in Jacksonville,
Fla, has a baby which Is half black and
half white. One side OF its face is black
as a coal and the other side white.
The number of disappointed employ
ment seekers at the Roach shipyard on O
recent morning Is said to have been al
most sufficient to operate another ship
yard.
A piece Of timber, taking up three fiat
oars, seventy-tive feet long and thirty
one inches in diameter. has been loaded
at Youngstown. o., destined for the
Panama canal.
A Baptist minister in Boone county,
". Va.,.is said to have made thousands
OF dollars by the Illicit distillatiOn of
whisky. He carried on the business in
what was supposed TO be pottery.
Inc IlhFNdIu ls
the ACCESSIBILITY OF fOrbdding any more
football games this year owing TO he
many csusualties which occurred during
the recent Harvsrd-PrIncetOn match.
Robert P. Porter, who spent last sum
mer in Ireland visiting the teDantry,
says that it is impossible 10 exaggerate
the wretChed condition of affairs in that
unhappy country.
A rebel flag, so feet long, has been I'M
esrthed at Elk Rapids, Mich, where it
had lain in garrett for 20 years. Ii was
captured from tho Confederate cruiser
Nashville.
Farmers around Whatoom, Mon. COM
plain that they are unable to protect
themselves against the hOrdes of deer
and antelope which ravage their or
chards and destroy their grain fields.
1t is probable that next spring Queen
Victoria will unvell the colossal bronze
statue of Gen. Gordon, which is to be
erected at Aberdeen In front OF the art
gallery. The statue was subscribed for
by members Of the Gordon clan.
John Thursby, OF Orange City, Fla,
fell asleep in his boat while fishing
When he awoke he was three miles up
stream, and the boat was being lowed
by an immense catfish that had taken
his bait. The fish weighed twenty
pounds.
LOndon's Ragged Sunday Schools"
which are declared to be the great
means OF reaching and improving the
poor children OF that city, are iDCreas-
ing fast in numbers and Influence. They
now have 10000 scholars and 1000
teachers.
Gen. Booth, OF the Salvation Army,
has decided 10 send squads of his SOL
diers to Zululand and South America.
Some Of his forces have already reached
Jerusalem, and the streets of the Holy
City resOund with their "amens" and
the jingle Of their tambourines.
They have just buried at SOuthw void,
Canada, Duncan Campbell, a man OF i'm
mense stature, who was ninety-nine
years OF age. He was the strongest
man in Elgin county, and had clear
mind and memory up TO the hour Of his
death. He was ScOtohmsn, coming
here In 1881.
A professional pallbearer has been dis
covered IN Philadelphia. He is an eX-
carpenter, who once, when out of a job,
was asked to be pallbeRrer at a funeral
of an entire stranger. He accepted, and
was paid literally. He saw business
In it, bought decent suit OF black reads
the obituary notices in the daily papers,
and goes to funerals. He says that he
averages two funerals q day, and makes
a living out Of it.